Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Phillip S. Meilinger
  • Preface
  • Introduction: the power of ideas
  • 1. Origins: the early years
  • 2. Learning to fly: from the Air Force Academy to Spain
  • 3. The making of a strategic thinker
  • 4. Operational assignments
  • 5. The art of air warfare: the air campaign
  • 6. Wing commander: ninety-three initiatives
  • 7. Air power theory: creation, loss, and recovery
  • 8. Instant thunder: victory through air power
  • 9. Checkmate: support to the military campaign
  • 10. Checkmate: support to the political campaign
  • 11. Transforming the Air Command and Staff College
  • 12. A farewell to arms
  • Perspectives: the intellectual warrior
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix 1. "Instant thunder"
  • Appendix 2. "CENTCOM air campaign plan."